(26 Aug 2025)
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Kasur district, Punjab, Pakistan – 26 August 2025
1. Various of rescue boats evacuating villagers
2. Various of flooded village
3. Woman getting into rescue boat
4. Man getting into rescue boat
5. Rescue boat carrying villagers
6. Wide of flooded area
7. SOUNDBITE (Punjabi) Muhammad Sharif, villager:
“Our houses were submerged and everything was destroyed, mostly mud houses collapsed. We saved our animals and children.”
8. Wide of flooded area with man and woman in boat leaving area
9. Various of rescue boats evacuating villagers
10. Mid of two members of rescue team on boat
11. Wide of flooded area
12. Various of rescued people disembarking from boats
13. Rescued people walking on road ++NIGHT SHOT++
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Adeel Aslam, rescue operation leader in Kasur district:
“We are working day and night, for the people of (the) river belt of River Sutlej. Approximately we have evacuated more than 3,500 people and more than 1,500 animals."
15. Various of village submerged in floodwaters
STORYLINE:
Pakistan has evacuated tens of thousands of people to safer areas after neighboring India released water from overflowing dams and swollen rivers into low-lying border regions, officials said Tuesday.
The move came a day after New Delhi alerted Islamabad about possible cross-border flooding, marking the first public diplomatic contact between the two nuclear-armed rivals in months.
Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority said it had issued an advance alert to its Punjabi counterparts about a surge in the Sutlej River and the risk of flooding, and that evacuations from various districts in the eastern Punjab province were underway.
In a statement, it said rescuers evacuated more than 14,000 people from Kasur, a district in Punjab province, while over 89,000 were moved to safer ground from the city of Bahawalnagar, near the Indian border.
“Our houses were submerged and everything was destroyed, mostly mud houses collapsed. We saved our animals and children," said Muhammad Sharif, a Kasur district resident.
The NDMA said authorities have urged residents to stay away from rivers, streams and low-lying areas, avoid unnecessary travel, and follow alerts issued through the media, mobile phones and the NDMA’s disaster alert app.
The latest flood alert and evacuation drive by Pakistan comes as heavy monsoon rains continue to batter both South Asian countries.
Nationwide, floods triggered by seasonal rains have killed more than 800 people in Pakistan since June 26.
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